Editor’s note: this is a transcript of this interview , courtesy of The Tom Woods Show. TOM WOODS: This book Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto is getting plaudits from everybody. Charles Goyette likes it, Ron Paul likes it, I like it. Everybody who reads it seems to be thrilled with it. It’s readable in the sense that it’s got
Americans, perhaps like all people, have a remarkable capacity for tuning out unpleasantries that do not directly affect them. I’m thinking here of wars on foreign lands, but also the astonishing fact that the United States has become the world’s most jail-loving country, with well over 1 in 100 adults living as slaves in a prison. Building and
Christopher Ratte, professor in the department of classics at the University of Michigan, was recently turned into a jailbird and had his son taken away from him, all in the name of protecting the child from the father. He had taken his 7-year old son to a baseball game in Detroit and ordered him lemonade. What was served up was a “Mike’s Hard
When the Egyptian protests first broke out, most Americans celebrated. Though Mubarak’s military must still be circumvented or overthrown, the revolt has spread, like a cleansing fire, to Bahrain, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Jordan, and beyond. What is all this all about? Thanks to Western rule since WWI, this is a region of dictators and
The violence perpetuated by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway unleashed the usual torrent of blaming anyone who might have influenced the murderer’s thought. He was first described as a right-wing Christian — a description designed to put a certain community on notice. As more evidence rolled in, he has been more accurately described as an
Chronicles December 1998 Polemics & Exchanges Freedom and School Vouchers Milton Friedman: Lew Rockwell (”Flies in the Ointment,” September) and I have the same ultimate objective: “an educational market in which parents are responsible for paying for their own children’s education.” We agree also on “the twin evils of public education:
This speech by the president of the Mises Institute was given before students, professors, trustees, and others at an awards dinner sponsored by the Adam Smith Club, Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina, April 4, 2002 . Rockwell and entrepreneur Lewis Fetterman received the club’s Free Enterprise Award . Free-market economics, of which
I was invited to speak at a peace march and rally in Birmingham, Alabama, sponsored by the Alabama Peace and Justice Coalition , and gladly accepted the offer to speak against the war in Iraq. Yes, as you might guess, the program was dominated by leftists who rightly oppose the war but want big government to run the economy. I accepted for the
It’s not enough that the Transportation Security Administration wastes hours upon endless hours of time. It’s not enough that they confiscate our Chapstick and toothpaste and claim that it is for our own protection. It’s not enough that we must fork over our ID at five different checkpoints before boarding a plane, and have strangers paid with our
La violencia perpetrada por Anders Behring Breivik en Noruega ha desatado el torrente usual de echar la culpa a todo el que pudiera haber influido en el pensamiento del asesino. Fue descrito primero como un cristiano derechista, una descripción pensada para poner sobre aviso a cierta comunidad. A medida que aparecían más pruebas, se le ha descrito
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